"I was going to bring in your cousin--the alienated American.

There's a great demand just now for the alienated American, and your cousin's a beautiful specimen.

I should have handled him severely." "He would have died of it!" Isabel exclaimed.

"Not of the severity, but of the publicity." "Well, I should have liked to kill him a little.

And I should have delighted to do your uncle, who seems to me a much nobler type--the American faithful still.